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I saw this floating around on Turners. This fella must've pulled all the ladies. https://www.turners.co.nz/Damaged-Vehicles/Damaged-Cars-for-Sale/bmw/335i/26559592

I was back to work this week running v5 of my tune with 5 rounds of VE tuning on top of it. It's given me the opportunity to drive a familiar route and get some good comparisons, as most of my recent driving has been VE tuning runs. Firstly - low rpm, round town drivability is now, believe it or not, BETTER than it was for me with stock airbox and stock program/tune! (to be fair I also cleaned the TBs, ICV, etc. at the same time so need to consider the impact this will have had also). Needless to say I'm extremely happy with how this is turning out. Drivability concerns are what put me off doing the CSL airbox for so long, so I'm stoked that this approach has turned out so well. I'm not sure if it's that just my car wasn't completely happy with the standard 1901 tune my car came with or what, but I guess I'd got used to avoiding certain RPMs at certain loads and speeds and all that is gone. I can cleanly and smoothly run up and down the range in first gear in stop start traffic, I can stay in higher gears at lower speeds than I would have and it's smooth sailing. SMG shifts and downshifts are excellent and repeatable. On the euro software (both with and without the CSL255 parameters) I couldn't be completely confident that I wouldn't get a bit of a jolt sometimes downshifting from 2nd to 1st with my foot off the accelerator. Now all that is gone completely. Not to make out that there aren't still improvements I can make, there's a couple of rpm/load spots I need to smooth out some more, but there's not many of them left at this point. Another scenario I often encountered previously was the tendency for the car to jerk under anything more than mild acceleration for the first 30 seconds or so after startup when completely cold. That's gone as well and drivability is smooth from completely cold. When starting out with this I would have been stoked to have ended up with the drivability being no worse than it was on the Euro tune, to have ended up with something even better is magic. I'm looking forward to continuing to fine tune. Relatedly I've been making some good progress with disassembly and have started looking at options around pushing more useful values onto the CANBUS. Looking at the address tables, functions, etc there doesn't seem to be any particular reason why it wouldn't be possible to add a function for an additional ARBID to be inserted onto the bus. If given an appropriately low priority ARBID it shouldn't get in the way of more critical signals. The bit that would be most difficult to figure out (apart from the bit where you DON'T brick your DME) is the easiest way to inject the additional function call into the flow. Looking at the 10ms task it would probably be easiest to take an existing function, move that function and use it's original address to build out a new function that calls both it and the additional function for the new ARBID. Unless I can find some spare bytes somewhere to inject an additional JSR (no doubt there's others here with more skills than me at identifying injection points for patches, so sing out if you have any suggestions). Other pre-reqs to this include tracing the variables that would be useful to send (things like lambda integrators, rpm, relative opening) and following the program flow to confirm the actual internal refresh rates for those variables (some of these are defined in the funktionsrahmen, but some aren't so I'd like to confirm for peace of mind).

I hope you are all well. I am based in Canterbury and own a 06' E90 320i. Happy to be here.

Selling: E30 318is Unfortunately the time has come for me to sell my E30. I am living overseas so she does not get the love she deserves. Just had a full paint touch up done for the new owner and new WOF. Currently 210,000kms. Details: - Full refurb done in 2021.. 15k + of receipts for work done including - All rust removed - Full engine refresh (engine out) - Interior reupholstered Price for Bimmersport members $35,000 Any questions feel free to get in touch or flick me a call on +61421299919, easiest to discuss all history etc over a call. Viewings is in Auckland. IMG_1615.HEIC

SOLD $12000 ono M Sport 135i 149000km Excellent cond. MHD Tune

I decided to go the whole hog and change out the master cylinder to better suit the new setup. The new item is from a M3 with MK60 ABS pump which has a 25.4mm front and 22.2mm rear bore. Side benefit of the later model master is the ports for pressure sensors, will integrate them into my custom electronics for monitoring at some point. The swap out will change the (calculated) front bias from 63.4% to 60.5% and should firm up the pedal feel. It's all completed now and the brakes certainly have a very solid feel so pretty happy with the result for sure and was well worth the effort, seat of the pants test suggests braking performance is improved but could be related to how solid it feels. Now for the story in pictures ... first up was the booster and master sourced from Ebay / https://mpartsworldwide.com/ at a pretty reasonable cost even with the shipping. Removal of the 318 item and a side by side comparison reveals that the M3 uses two M12x1.0 ports and the 318 item is one M12 and one M10. I sourced an adapter from Ebay (and unfortunately their international shipping program ugghhh) which is USA made and adapts M12 to M10 bubble flare directly on the master. The other issue is the reservoir from the M3 was filthy and I could not remove the filter successfully to clean it. Ordered a replacement reservoir along with fresh grommets. My alternate plan was to use the reservoir from the 318 but it turns out the retaining screw on the M3 item inserts from the other side making this not possible without machining, who would have thought !! While having both units out I also compared all of the critical dimensions, and successfully confirmed they were a like for like fitment 👍 Disassembly of the M3 master for a full clean, based on what i saw in the reservoir. Can not source replacement seals unfortunately so re-assembled. That's really about it, reassembled everything and bled the system ... happy days !!

Not a whole lot has changed with the car recently, just been enjoying driving it. Made up a little shifter surround cover for the rtd shifter and wrapped that in Alcantara to match the radio delete plate. As well as removing the idrive controller and making it match as well.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend, in spite of the latest installment in the anniversary weekend weather saga. Just testing the waters really before I list the car on Trademe, I'm looking to sell my M3. That old chestnut of genuinely needing something more practical - as it turns out not only do kids grow, so does the amount of gear they accumulate. NZ New, Titan Siver Metallic, black leather interior. Almost complete service history (including new engine at c. 45,000km!... kudos to the original owner), have taken to servicing at indendent specialists following some main dealer misadventures. Originally SMG, converted to manual Dec 2019 (along with install of Karbonius CSL intake) courtesy of Hell BM and KBM. CM Wheels CSL replica alloys (19s) with Michelin Pilot Sport 4Ss. Genuine CSL front brake discs with upgraded mounting brackets. Have original intake and caliper brackets. Special shout out to Tom for his tireless help with this (and subsequent tune), a fountain of knowledge and a true gentleman... I owe you lots of coffee (and two rear shocks!). Recent $6k service (cheers Luke at Skunkworks, Devonport), including powder coating rear subframe, installation of Revshift 80A subframe, trailing arm and diff mount bushes, new battery, diff refurb (by KBM). Subframe has previously been reinforced, both plates and structural foam. To-do list: - Front right headlight occasionally slow to ignite... have a spare headlight, just haven't found the time. - E60 M5 (US spec) gearknob a bit, erm, patina'd. - New brake pads needed (will organise before sale). I have owned the car for 8.5 years, saw heavy use for the first 12 months, more occasional use since the kids arrived. Easily one of the best condition E46s I have seen, and I have seen a lot. If I was looking now, this would be my dream spec - I cannot even begin to stress how transformative the carbon intake is to the overall experience. It literally defines the car. Happy to answer any further questions (either here, [email protected], or on 0211229081). Looking for offers in the region of $42,000. Cheers. Jason.